Fewer than 50 per cent of health-care workers in acute and complex continuing care got the flu shot in 2010. Efforts to boost interest in this tried and true infection control measure are underway, but are nurses interested? This flu season, ...

Does failing to ask what a resident at a long-term care home would like on his toast constitute elder abuse? The answer: yes. If you’re surprised, you’re probably not as savvy on the issue as you should be. But you’re ...

Seven months ago, I almost died in Nicaragua. While swimming in waist-deep water at Poneloya beach in León, the country’s second largest city, a strong current pulled me away from shore. Floating on my back, I miraculously ended up close ...

Kim Watson is a staff nurse in the emergency department at Hotel-Dieu Grace Hospital in Windsor. She has always had a passion for complementary therapies (CT). As a child, she recalls receiving the healing touch from her grandmother. As an ...

It was the fall of 1956 and 22-year-old RN Josephine Flaherty had just arrived at a Red Cross outpost in northernOntario. She was the community’s only health-care professional despite having graduated from the University of Toronto’s (U of T) nursing ...